this is news live from berlin the european parliament declares a climate emergency e.u. lawmakers pal the pressure on the incoming commission president bush to look from the lion to keep the wood and make the block climate neutral by 2015 also on the program. china condemns the united states for meddling in its domestic spy domestic affairs after president trump signs a bill supporting hong kong pro-democracy activists beijing promises firm counter-measures. and it was britain's worst sporting tragedy the police chief

accused of being responsible for the deaths of $95.00 liverpool football fans in the 1989 hillsborough disaster is cleared of manslaughter. i'm told me well welcome to the program but european parliament has declared a climate imagine see the resolution passed with a clear majority in strasbourg lawmakers hope the move will send a powerful signal to the un climate summit which starts in madrid next week they also aim to put pressure on the incoming e.u. executive to take a leading role in the global fight against climate change. so how significant is the declaration we asked miranda shreyas a professor of climate policy. well what's important about this measure is that

it's joining a number of other countries and cities and states that in said the climate change problem is really very serious and it's so serious we want to make make this aware to everybody and really say this is a climate emergency so i think it has symbolic power and it can have agenda setting power the european parliament is one of the more progressive that the european institutions and the fact that the european parliament has passed this this emergency declaration is really a way to say soon when the presidents and chancellors of the european states meet to make decisions about where to go with climate strategy for 2030 and beyond that this will really put some more pressure on them to take the climate change issue far more seriously than has been done in the past so it is more than symbolic but as as critics would also say what what is missing here are any kind of concrete

decisions about what kinds of decisions need to be taken in terms of phasing out of coal or casing out of fossil energy is or phasing out subsidies that are going to the fossil energy sector we're dealing with the agricultural sector so so this many many things that need to happen as a next step the climate emergency statement is her step in this process. china has reacted angrily after u.s. president donald trump signed bills backing hong kong pro-democracy activists beijing says it will take firm countermeasures against the u.s. for meddling in its domestic affairs the new legislation means there will be an annual review of the favorable trade status that washington grants hong kong. pro-democracy demonstrators thanking u.s. president donald trump for signing legislation that ensures the u.s. backed democracy in hong kong. there was music in the air including the

star-spangled banner. trump a hero. for you as president signed on to hong kong human rights and democracy act that's the remarkable achievement of all the hong kong with the courage and determination of hong kong as to fight for freedom and democracy it's all because of this trump signed into law an act that says the u.s. will check whether hong kong remains democratic as a prerequisite for keeping hong kong special trade status the government in beijing is really angry. young girl. is china's hong kong and hong kong affairs are purely chinese internal affairs which i'm going no foreign government or power has the right so we need something more than a go. to. beijing says it will use countermeasures if the u.s.

continues quote down the wrong path. more on this from d.w. washington correspondent pablo foley earliest public do know why the president president trump signed these bills. hi tony well you know with president trump it's always very difficult to interpret why decisions are made at a specific moment in time and this would be one of them the president said that he signed it out of respect for president xi jinping of china he said he's done that of respect for china and also for the people of hong kong now it's also been pretty difficult to work out of times one president trump's interpretation of the ongoing protests in hong kong has been you know he said that he's with hong kong at times he's also said that here you know the chinese president xi jinping a great guy now before signing the lol and he also expressed

a lot of concern about what the implications of signing this would be with regards to this quite delicate situation that the united states and china find themselves in at the moment with regards to this trade war and the possibility of reaching as some sort of agreement on ending it because it's been pretty ongoing here and you know president trump has been receiving quite a lot of criticism here from all sides over his handling of the situation it was all the likely consequences for the u.s. because of this. well as i said you know the president has been seeking some sort of trade deal with china to end this trade war which has been going on and it's been stretching on for far longer than many had hoped here in the u.s. now the chinese government as we saw in the report there is you know pretty angry at this situation and they've threatened counter measures what exactly they are it's clear. they also said that you know the united states they would do that if

you know at the united states continue down they say what they call the wrong path now we also know that the u.s. ambassador in china was so moved by the chinese government and you know they were told that the united states should stop interfering in china's internal affairs so you know this kind to be good for this delicate relationship between the united states and china and you know the one thing that has come out of it is that the activists there in hong kong have expressed their joy at the united states is essentially backing them and so has clearly shown their support of the united states showing support for them at the moment ok yes thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump says he's restarted peace talks with the taliban 3 months

after ending negotiations the announcement came during a surprise visit to afghanistan where he met with president ashraf ghani and american troops but mr trump also said he wants to draw down the number of u.s. soldiers in the country. medical sources say iraqi forces have shot dead at least 25 protesters in the southern city of nasiriya as unrest continues to grip the country on wednesday demonstrators set fire to the iranian consulate in the city of najaf outrage over unemployment government corruption and perceived iranian influence has been fueling widespread and government protests. in north korea has test fired 2 short range missiles that's according to south korea and japan observers say the move could be an attempt by pyongyang to pressure the u.s. over deadlocked nuclear talks the north has set an end of year deadline negotiations to restart. pressure on maltese government is increasing

over the investigation into the murder of journalist daphne cairo and the. prime minister jos of muscat held an urgent cabinet meeting late on thursday to discuss the matter earlier this week his former chief of staff keefe scrambly was arrested by police over alleged links to the case he was later released without charge for weeks now protesters have called for most got to step down accusing him of accusing him of protecting his ally his allies. earlier we talked with daphne cairo and again it's your son matthew who is himself an investigative journalist we asked him about his assessment of muskets role in the case what is incredible is that the prime minister is still using his position and even giving speeches in parliament behaving as though he is the defense lawyer of his chief of staff who is now currently being investigated for his role in the murder of my mother is just

absolutely astonishing i can't think of a single parent or not just in your above the anywhere else in the world where i lifted the head of government uses dispositions of this to defend a murderer so our position on the equivocally years he has to go it's not just a question of moral responsibility but also if we want to the investigation to move forward and it's very clear that it's an investigation in which his office is implicated then he has to go completely new people have to take over is there enough or does there need to be much more pressure from the e.u. there needs to be more i think a big problem is started so very embarrassing for european leaders who have embraced a more scart like france to like a man with a marker on. disguised himself as a liberal or that his actually are popular of sed heavily or forit area in his

government is extremely corrupt. european leaders were our neighbors to see through this of this guys because they were so desperate to find liberalize within the european union and they made the mistake of a bracing was scart and other allies it is the embrace of that you who said previously that if when. the fact from the panama papers that your mother began investigating if after they had 1st being found out to these people who were implicated by the resigned or had been arrested at the time then your mother could well be alive she would definitely be alive this is a certainty to the public inquiry which we fought 2 years to start the prime minister tried to stop it every turn will seek to establish jobs this us

fact that the maltese government also have known that there was a plot to murder my mother. also that it's created or cultivated. a real land percy you've gotten a sphere of impunity that facilitated my mother's us i've seen you sure why you're seeing people last year was investigated to the police officer in charge during the 989 hillsborough stadium disaster in england has been found not guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence david duncan filled was match commando when 96 liverpool fans were crushed to death inside the stadium the prosecution argued that the 75 year old bore personal responsibility for what happened on the day after a 7 week trial dokken field was cleared by a majority verdict it's left to grieving families devastated. or not to

see the red grapes who is out there now to see a lot the world one of these days this has been just that of martha jane on this whole geographic i think the above was. david duncan filled acquittal follows a long campaign for justice by victims they waited 30 years to see criminal charges brought. hillsborough as the worst stadium disaster in british history 96 little football fans lost their lives falling across the sheffield venue in 1909 . in the wake of the tragedy as an entire city grieved off track to falsely blame supporters for overcrowding in the standing terrorists a front page story in the sun newspaper compounded the myth victims' families have been fighting for justice ever since. kenny darvish

a told about that fateful day they were all for the group and so. you know we all really went to a football match. what we were. never going to. do with 24 hours worth of. disgraceful in fact police had opened a gate to try to relieve overcrowding outside. but a crush then ensued inside an initial inquest said the deaths were accidental meaning criminal charges could not be brought but the families did not give up and kept pushing for a new inquest an independent panel was set up to review the evidence in 2012 it found police had tampered with witness statements a new inquest in 2016 ruled the deaths to be unlawful and police match commander david duncan failed seen here in the blue jacket was put on trial and charged with

manslaughter by gross negligence the verdict ends a saga which shamed the british establishment. this is news coming to you from berlin up next is the documentary columbia a long road to peace member you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website dot com. welcome to the book is the game here for d.w.i. truth we have tried to talk about it. let's start our coverage. for. us a little we have. let's have a look at some of the other illegal so you don't want. to double you.